Read that again, because this may be the biggest feature in After Effects CS5 that almost no one has discovered: Mocha AE can track a shape around an object over time, and you can copy that shape and paste it into a layer's Mask Shape, with keyframe data, right in the Timeline. Even better, you can simply copy that shape from Mocha AE and paste it into After Effects as a mask.You can track anything procedurally (not just a plane, for example, but say an arm, a head, or that other type of planean airplane) and use the shape that's tracked around it in After Effects, instead of just the tracking data. First is the addition of Mocha Shape, an included plug-in that lets Mocha export one of its tracked and animated Bézier or X-spline shapes for use in After Effects.Mocha AE version 2, which is still a separate application that appears in the After Effects CS5 application folder, goes beyond its predecessor in three key ways:
This more sophisticated approach to tracking increases signal and reduces noise so much that many of us found ourselves using Mocha AE for just about every type of tracknot just its specialty, the Corner Pin (which allows for easy replacement of a sign or billboard, for example, in a shot with a moving camera). Planar tracking goes way beyond what After Effects' own built-in point tracker can do, because it looks at whole two-dimensional surfaces or planes as one tracking target. Mocha AE v2 with Mocha Shape Mocha AE v2 with Mocha ShapeĪfter Effects CS4 introduced Mocha AE, an incredible planar tracking application, as an included component.
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